Data Governance & Transformation Associate — Unstructured Data

Grant Thornton; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton is seeking a Data Transformation & Governance Associate to join the GTech team. This role supports governance, quality, stewardship, and data standards across acquisitions, including unstructured content like mailboxes and collaboration data, to ensure ready-for-analytics data.

The Associate collaborates with data governance leads, stewards, IT, and vendors to organize data migration, archival, and analytics enablement while maintaining an auditable governance trail and enterprise

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in data governance or data management.
• Exposure to unstructured content environments such as mail, file storage, collaboration platforms.
• Knowledge of retention concepts, ownership, and data classification.
• Experience supporting data migration, archival, and analytics readiness.

Responsibilities

• Maintain data governance documentation for acquired-company integration.
• Inventory data estate across structured and unstructured content.
• Record retention, ownership, and approval entries for auditability.
• Assist with data quality tracking, lineage, and metadata documentation.
• Support transformation readiness and analytics enablement activities.

Skills

Data governance

Data management

Analytics

Project coordination

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Business, Computer Science, Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Collibra

Informatica

Snowflake

Power BI

Metadata management

Job description

Grant Thornton is seeking a Data Transformation & Governance Associate to join the GTech team. This role supports governance, quality, stewardship, and data standards across acquisitions, including unstructured content like mailboxes and collaboration data, to ensure ready-for-analytics data.

The Associate collaborates with data governance leads, stewards, IT, and vendors to organize data migration, archival, and analytics enablement while maintaining an auditable governance trail and enterprise